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What is a jubilee? The royal celebration’s

The celebration of HM’s Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee is imminent — but what is a jubilee, and where does this strange word come from? Martin Fone investigates. Until this year fifteen monarchs around the world had reigned for at least seventy years, the grand-père of them all being Louis XIV whose 72 years and 110 […]

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This Week in Agribusiness, May 21, 2022

Many growers are still planting due to weather and Gene Reid, Malta, Illinois, shares an update on planting for his farm. Planting began at Boone, Iowa Farm Progress Show site that will be harvested during the show August 30 – September 1, 2022. Max talks with Scott Henry, Nevada, Iowa in this segment of Plan […]

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‘Norfolk. Merely typing the word on a computer screen gives me a little twinge of satisfaction’: D. J. Taylor on how Norfolk has inspired him for a lifetime

Novelist and local D. J. Taylor reveals the real magic of Norfolk, his home county. People who live outside Norfolk and get their ideas about it from television programmes nearly always assume that the backdrop is more or less identikit, a matter of flat fields, wide skies, picturesque churches nestling among the reed beds and, […]

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